Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Maynard James KeenanI think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Maynard James KeenanWe're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
Maynard James KeenanI think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
Maynard James KeenanThis sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Maynard James Keenan